Exclusive: Mexico’s Pemex seeks control of U.S. oil firm’s billion-barrel find
When U.S. oil firm Talos Energy found nearly a billion barrels off Mexico’s southern Gulf coast two years ago, it marked the first discovery by...
Saudi Arabia has sent messages to Iran’s president: Iran government
Saudi Arabia has sent messages to Iran’s president through the leaders of other countries, an Iranian government spokesman said on Monday, at a time of...
Houthis free 290 Yemenis in unilateral release: Red Cross
Yemen’s Houthi movement freed 290 Yemeni detainees in a “unilateral release” on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said....
Markets watchdog fines Prudential 24 million pounds over annuity sales
Britain’s markets watchdog has fined insurer Prudential 24 million pounds ($29.39 million) for failures related to non-advised sales of annuities, it said on Monday....
Indonesia protests enter second week as vote on sex-ban bill delayed
Indonesia’s parliament on Monday officially agreed to delay to a next term a vote on a criminal code that bans sex outside marriage and penalizes...
U.N. Yemen envoy welcomes Houthi detainee release
The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, welcomed an offer by Yemen’s Houthi movement to unilaterally release a number of detainees, saying he...
Italian military convoy hit by explosion in Somalia: defense ministry
An Italian military convoy was hit by an explosion in Somalia on Monday, the defense ministry said, adding that no injuries have been reported so...
Twin attacks hit EU military convoy in Somali capital and U.S. base in Baledogle
Separate attacks hit a U.S. military base in the Somali town of Baledogle and a European military convoy in the Somali capital on Monday, a...
Sri Lankan presidential nominee Rajapaksa faces court test over nationality
A court in Sri Lanka set up a three-judge panel on Monday to hear a petition challenging the citizenship of presidential nominee Gotabaya Rajapaksa, which...
The World in Pictures
Some of the best images of the day taken by Reuters photographers across the globe and selected by our editors....